Wishful thinking, fearful thinking, and prejudice can generate ill-founded beliefs. These beliefs are ill-founded by virtue of the way that other mental states influence their formation. Once formed, they pass on their ill-foundedness to subsequent beliefs formed on their basis. I argue that the same is true of experiences. Wishful seeing, fearful seeing, and prejudiced seeing can generate epis...

5 In standard decision theory, rational agents are objective, keeping their beliefs independent from their 6 desires. Such agents are the basis for current computational models of Theory of Mind (ToM), but the 7 accuracy of these models are unknown. Do people really think that others do not let their desires color 8 their beliefs? In two experiments we test whether people think that others enga...

The paper samples the large body of neuroscientific evidence suggesting that each mental function takes place within specific neural structures. For instance, vision appears to occur in the visual cortex, motor control in the motor cortex, spatial memory in the hippocampus, and cognitive control in the prefrontal cortex. Evidence comes from neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, brain s...